February 8, 2006

Last year in August, I started this blog on a whim, and now we’ve reached 100 posts. To celebrate, I’ve been working on a covers project officially titled – “From Buddy to Sufjan: The Music For Kids Who Can’t Read Good Covers Project.”

As the title suggests, I’m going to be linking Buddy Holly, my favorite artist from the 50’s to Sufjan Stevens, my favorite artist of right now. And I’m doing it through cover songs. While doing so my goal was to include as many of my favorite artists as I could and also provide all the links in the chain (a task that proved to be not easy). I also made some pretty sweet album art for it. (check the picture above) So without further ado, here it is:

From Buddy to Sufjan: The Music For Kids Who Can’t Read Good Covers Project.

Thought I’d start out with a Buddy Holly song even though it’s not a cover. I have an interesting story about this song though, I visited the studio where Buddy Holly recorded this song and I got to play the actual instrument that plays during the bridge of the song (called a celesta, like my girlfriend). I worked out the song by ear. It was intensely cool.

I love how the Rolling Stones on their Dylan cover don’t seem to realize that it’s a bitter, cynical song. You can’t really blame them–if you’re Keith Richards, the answer to “How does it feel…to be like a rolling stone?” can only be “pretty damn good!”